>>>>>>> 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
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>>>>>>I knew it. That's what my brother and I keep accusing my mother of having done. We've told her that we know we were born to live in opulence, but when she saw her own babies, she decided they weren't attractive enough, so she chose us instead. We tell her she owes us big time for not blowing the whistle on her.
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>>>>>>> 21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
>>>>>>> purple, and silver.
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>>>>>>How could there be. They don't sound the same at all. ;)
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>>>>>I wonder what rhymes with wiseass? ;-) (IOW, good one).
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>>>>I think the word you're looking for is 'Alan'. Oh, wait. That's not a rhyme, it's a synonym. ;)
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>>>Well Jerk-off rhymes with your surname :-)
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>>Not even close. It's pronounced as 'puh poe' with the accent on the poe. As in Edgar Allan Poe with a stutter. Edgar Allan Popow. I used to tell people it was pronounced "Johnson". I mean, it's my name. I can pronounce it however I want.
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>Wow, all this time I was imagining a russian (incorrect word I know) ancestry. Having taken Russian in high school, I was assuming it was pronounced that way... :o)

It is Russian (sort of - well, Georgian anyway). Originally it was Popov. My dad was born in Saskatchewan, but the community spoke pretty much only Russian. When he moved away from home, as far as he was concerned, 'w' was pronounced as 'v', so he always wrote it as Popow. Eventually, the pronunciation evolved from Popov to Popow - why, I'm not sure, but I've always known it to be pronounced as explained above. My mother does not go by Popowa. If it had remained Popov, perhaps she would be Popova, but we'll never know.